Figuring Out Being An Adult In My Late 20s

Managing Zero to Minimum Income Lifestyle While recovering From Chronic Illness.

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My finances are fucked up! I don’t even know where to start. Some days when I figure out where to start, I get totally confused how to. The spiral has been going on for at least two months now.

Well before that also, my finances were as fucked up. It was just not as alarming to me as my mental health issues were.

But now that I am coming back to life, I can see how much I have missed out on.

Everything I buy cost money and it was not as worrying when I could ask my parents for it and due to their love for me or an obligation as a parent, or maybe a mixture of both. I was okay financially.

Although now, I said to them a month or two ago that I will not take money from them anymore and I will manage my own finances being an adult. I feel anxious.

Anxiety is not new but financial anxiety is. But this time I want to keep doing better and get financially able.

But I really don’t know where to start and how to proceed and do the work and get the money.

I feel like the last time I had a sensible and growth mindset was when I was in school, trying to get into a college. Well, there has been afterwards that growth mindset as well before this year but it only came and went in glimpses.

This time I feel healthiest in more than a decade and back then I was hardly a teenager.

Now, a twenty seven year old adult trying to buy basic necessities with house rent with zero income in the last two months and I still don’t know where I will get money for next month!!